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Example sentences for "move forward"

  • G--Move forward (if signaled from the rear to the front).

  • Preparing to move forward (if signaled from the front).

  • My horse, too, appeared to be somewhat recovered; so I again climbed up on the saddle, and this time the animal consented to move forward, its instinct telling it that food was to be found in the direction we were going.

  • As the night wore on I found my poor horse advancing at a slower and slower pace, showing how fatigued it had become, while I had scarcely strength left to move forward; still I was afraid to halt.

  • Then, digging round the poor beast's front feet, and patting it on the neck, I induced it to move forward a few paces.

  • Meanwhile the troops, unable to move forward, broke contact with the Japanese in an orderly fashion.

  • On the steep sides of the gulch around this bridge site, elements of the 57th Infantry with rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars stopped all attempts of Company E to move forward.

  • Upon hearing that the regimental commander was to lead them, the men started to move forward.

  • Jackson, when he ordered Hill to the front, had sent verbal instructions-always dangerous-for the remainder of his troops to move forward inline of battle.

  • But when the day came for it to move forward, it was still unfit for an offensive campaign against a regular army.

  • If I were to ask you all your secrets, would you tell them?

  • Lord George let Lizzie take the leap before he took it, knowing that, if there were misfortune, he might so best render help.

  • If there is a rise in wages, rents are able to move forward, because the workers can afford to pay a little more.

  • These are great events; and their consequences, I think, ought to encourage us to move forward, and not to move back.

  • Within minutes over two hundred fighters, cruisers and destroyers had emerged from the death-womb of the Carrier, formed into squadrons and flotillas, turned to face the enemy and begun to move forward.

  • The Dreadnought continued to move forward; it was nearly at the midpoint between two armies.

  • The tear dispersed the images which had filled her contemplative mood, and rising from her sylvan seat, she prepared to move forward, when a voice calling at some little distance, drew her attention.

  • She answered his salutation coldly, and was preparing to move forward, when his words again called for her reluctant notice.

  • The front line being upon the extreme right of the army, and the troops upon its left failing to move forward in conjunction with it, I deemed it prudent to halt without making an attack upon the enemy's line.

  • Captain Smith came with an order to move forward connecting on the left with the Second Brigade.

  • The creek was not visible from any part of our line when we began to move forward, and no one probably knew of it until its banks were reached.

  • When, as the string is pulled, the top is thrown forwards on the floor, we may see it move forward (sometimes in a circle) at the same time that it spins on its axis.

  • But what force is that which gave to them this original impulse, and impressed upon them such a tendency to move forward in a straight line?

  • When the enemy's fire makes it impracticable for the troop to move forward in one of the above-mentioned formations, it may advance by rushes.

  • Being at a halt, to move forward at a trot or gallop=, the commands are (par.

  • We talked over matters generally, and he explained that he had ordered General Gordon Granger, with the Fourth Corps, to move forward rapidly to Burnsides help, and that he must return to Chattanooga to push him.

  • Smith's brigade was deployed under cover on the left, and Denver's on the right, ready to move forward rapidly at a signal.

  • He was reading from it some piece of news, sitting on his horse, when the column again began to move forward, and he resumed his place at the head of his command.

  • The dragoons reached Pollock’s camp on the 30th, and on the following day he began to move forward.

  • Under such circumstances, Brigadier Wild could only write that he was prepared to move forward whenever it was expedient to do so, but that he could not answer for the consequences of a precipitate advance.

  • On the foundations of our greatly strengthened economy and our renewed confidence in democratic values, we can continue to move forward.

  • The general objective, on the contrary, is to move forward to find the way in time of peace to the full utilization and development of our physical and human resources that were demonstrated so effectively in the war.

  • It will determine whether we move forward to a stable and healthy housing enterprise and toward providing a decent home for every American family.

  • He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Bud give the command for the men to move forward.

  • Just you men wait for a signal from me to move forward.

  • I want you men to wait here in silence until I give you the signal to move forward.

  • Thus reinforced Sir Robert Napier determined to move forward and to encamp before Magdala, even if he decided upon delaying the assault until the other wing of the Beloochees and the 3d Dragoon Guards joined us.

  • From what I hear, and from what I see in the English papers, pressure is being strongly applied to Sir Robert Napier to move forward.

  • It is probable that the King will start almost immediately Grant arrives, and in that case Sir Robert will have to move forward at once in order to arrive first at the place of meeting.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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